When Agile isn’t Agile
Reading I Fear Our Mobile Group Being Forced To Follow Scrum crystallised in my mind what can go wrong when you treat Agile as a methodology. It describes a team successfully using kanban which is to...
View ArticleCan a Contract Cope with Changing Requirements?
It’s been decades since software people started to think about how to cope with requirements changing during the course of an engagement, though other areas of endeavour have surely been doing it since...
View ArticleSoftware Architecture for Agile Developers – xp-manchester April 2013
A fine time was had by all … xp-manchester 2013 Software architecture for agile developers intro from Chris Carroll
View ArticleAgile Adoption
If a team or organisation wants to adopt agile, should they do it all in one, or gradually? How do you overcome problems in agile adoption? Agile Principles when Adopting Agile Agile is not about...
View ArticleDoing Architecture with Agile Teams
Alan Gawthorpe & I a talk last month on doing architecture with agile teams: Doing Architecture with Agile Teams IASA UK Summit 2013 from Chris Carroll We did the session agile-style: We had cards...
View ArticleJust Enough Design Upfront? How to draw the line between enough and too much
Earlier this year the term Hayim Makabee proposed the term ‘Adaptable Design Up Front’ as a way of pointing the way forwards between the Scylla of BDUF and the Charybdis of degenerating into a Ball of...
View ArticleSoftware Development: “The New Deal”
Had enough of arguing about agile? Concerned that software development has been side-tracked by religious war? Keen to inject an element of pragmatism, not to mention fact-based-ness into the debates?...
View ArticleAgile Adoption
If a team or organisation wants to adopt agile, should they do it all in one, or gradually? How do you overcome problems in agile adoption? Agile Principles when Adopting Agile Agile is not about...
View ArticleWhen Agile isn’t Agile
Reading I Fear Our Mobile Group Being Forced To Follow Scrum crystallised in my mind what can go wrong when you treat Agile as a methodology. It describes a team successfully using kanban which is to...
View ArticleCan a Contract Cope with Changing Requirements?
It’s been decades since software people started to think about how to cope with requirements changing during the course of an engagement, though other areas of endeavour have surely been doing it since...
View ArticleSoftware Architecture for Agile Developers – xp-manchester April 2013
A fine time was had by all … xp-manchester 2013 Software architecture for agile developers intro from Chris Carroll
View ArticleEstimates and NoEstimates
We had a debate&discussion at XP-Man on NoEstimates for which I did some notes. Reading the NoEstimates stuff, I was most attracted to the sense of “Let’s not be satisfied with second rate” and of...
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Coplien & Bjørnvig : Lean Architecture For Agile Developers. A Review
Four years after this book came out, Agile Architecture has at last become a Thing. But as the nuance of its title hints, this book is not fad-driven. It is a carefully-thought out exposition of what...
View ArticleA Manifesto for Post-Agile Software Development
— DRAFT — In nearly 15 years since the Agile manifesto was penned, an entire generation of the software industry has grown up having known only ‘Agile’ methodologies. Their experience has not been...
View ArticleThe Smallest Agile Methodology That Could Possibly Work
People You need 3 hats. That might mean 3 people, or 3 groups of people, or 1 or 2 people wearing more than 1 hat: 1 person who knows what they want to have. 1 person who knows about how to provide...
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